Trained at Torino Film Lab in colaboration with Script & Pitch, the feature film project CANAL written by Sebastian Mantilla from Spain and produced by Bianca Smanio from Novart Media Films, has been one of five europeans selected to participate at PUENTES taking place in Buenos Aires from March 26-30, 2009 within the framework of the BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) taking place from March 25 - April 5, 2009.
Along with CANAL, PUENTES Europe...
The film Teza presents the story of a highly educated Ethiopian who returns home from Germany after Mengistu takes power.
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Friday, 6 February----
The European Film Market, the professional component of the Berlinale, opened yesterday at the historic Martin Gropius Bau with more of a whimper than a bang. Attendance on the opening day and for today's first official day of market screenings was definitely sparse compared to years past, with hallways amazingly empty and ample empty seats available in the cafe and meeting points. "This is the slowest Berlin I've ever experienced", one veteran sales agent...
This festival pretends to bring to the general audiences the work an effort of the latin and spanishamerican directors and producers.
Not only on film support but on digital resources as well.
There has been holding the only festival in Japan, which specialized in children films, called "Kinder Film Festival Japan" in Tokyo. It is in cooperation with the annual "Kinder Filmfest Berlin" at "International Berlin Film Festival".
The Malaysian Video Awards is dedicated to the art and craft of film and video making in Malaysia and does so by recognising and rewarding budding and professional craftsmen.
The International Forum aims to inform about new
formal and thematic developments of film in all
countries of the world. It is the privileged place
within the Berlin Film Festival where innovative
and experimental films are shown.
The Golden Podium Awards are rewarding the directors of the world`s best sports TV images. The best sequences will be presented during the Awards Ceremony presided by H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.
The Festival have the environment as the central theme, related to the natural environment, with the existence of live organisms, with the quality of life of the human beings or with the future of humanity.
The festival has created an atmosphere that allows different societies to know and understand each other through documentary films by utilizing the universal language of cinema.
The EFM is one of the top annual events for the international film industry.
The aim of the BsAsSFF is to show to local audience the very best of international short films. Win the audience award: a trip to Patagonia.
Since its founding in 1999, Seoul International Youth Film Festival [SIYFF] has become the most important festival for young people in Korea. 8th SIYFF wants to give support to promoting media culture of youth.
Short film festival in trains of the underground with audience jury. 3money awards 6000€. Films no longer than 90 seconds,without sound, not containing violence or sex. The festival has around 1,6 Million spectators a day. 14 films will be nominated.
Moviemiento is a travelling European short film festival. The festival screens films in seven different European cities: Berlin, Krakow, Budapest, Pietrasanta, Istria, Marseille, Barcelona.
"1 minute - 1 shot" is a fest about one minute
and one shot through one minute one shot.
Gagik Ghazareh
The World Wide film Festival is a media arts festival. Each year we present a programme with recent single-screen productions.
On January 3rd, 2008, The Toronto Star ran a Front Page by Peter Crawford entitled "Mobster Confesses"! The interview was in Amsterdam N.Y. on a snowey nite, right after Christmas. 2007! Mr. Peter Crawford came 400 miles to interview a former general member (made) of the old Lansky Group (Meyer) and a Full Member of the NCS (old Combination) in the United States, not Canada. The interview was about 5 hours long at the America's Best Hotel in Amsterdam, N.Y.(about 30 miles from Albany...
It was 1974 and Mr. Lansky was still pissed off at the World for not letting him buy it. I had been with Meyer since 1968, in my own world, in upstate N.Y. My mentor was my father, who worked for Meyer and Doc Farone, an old ally and bootlegger with Meyer. Doc was the first legitimate Molsen Beer Distributer in America. I learned in 68 that he had just used Molsen as a front to ship moonshine back into Canada. Doc would put me on errands with money to Ray Patriarca in Providence, R.I. and giv...
I have joined www.fest21.com today inorder to get my projects to the screen. I will tell my story in short form over the next few weeks, hoping to get some help. I am the last executive enforcer for a major syndicate Boss left. I have had to wait until all my partners were dead and my own beloved mother to pass inorder to tell the facts. I look forward to all your input and request help. I should be a household word by now for I had the contracts to kill Fidel Castro and Pierre Trudeau, plus e...
CALL FOR ENTRIES
XXIV. BLACK INTERNATIONAL CINEMA BERLIN, MAY 2009
Intercultural/Interdisciplinary film/video, dance, theatre,
music & seminar presentations Berlin/Germany & USA
For entry form and further information, please consult
www.blackinternationalcinema.de
FESTIVAL IMPRESSIONS 2008
http://www.black-international-cinema.com/BIC08/html/bic_08.htm
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Athens - Istanbul
Athens - Istanbul is the new feature film by Nikos Panayotopoulos.
It is a road movie that starts in a traffic jam! The hero of the film, a depressive lawyer, after his recent divorce sets off a journey in his car with a vague pretext on visiting his sick father in Thessaloniki. His trip looks more like a runaway. Events on the National Road and the key meeting with a young wandering lady force him to play a key role in this adventure, revealing himself to his middle ...
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